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About Presidential Public Procurement Authority

The national authority responsible for regulating, monitoring and publishing public procurement.

Organisation overview

Independent oversight of how public funds are spent

Presidential Public Procurement Authority was established to regulate public procurement, set standards for fairness and transparency, and operate the central platform through which every government tender is published. We work with ministries, agencies and local authorities to ensure procurement is open to qualified suppliers and free from undue influence.

Since launch, the platform has carried over 300 published opportunities a year across construction, supplies, ICT, consultancy and logistics categories, with a growing base of registered small and medium enterprises.

Our role spans three connected functions. As a regulator, we set and enforce the minimum standards every procuring entity must follow, from how a tender notice is drafted to how a complaint is investigated. As a platform operator, we run the digital infrastructure — this website and the systems behind it — that publishes opportunities, manages supplier records and retains the audit trail for every award. As a capacity-builder, we train procurement officers inside government agencies and run outreach sessions for small and medium suppliers who are new to public-sector bidding, so that the rules are not just published but genuinely understood by the people who rely on them.

Mission

To ensure public procurement is conducted transparently, competitively and accountably, delivering value for every public dollar spent.

Vision

A public procurement system that is trusted by citizens, accessible to every qualified business, and free of corruption.

Legal mandate

Presidential Public Procurement Authority operates under the (fictional, for demonstration purposes) Public Procurement Act 2024 and its accompanying Regulations, which give the authority power to issue binding procurement guidelines, investigate complaints, and suspend suppliers found to be in breach of the Code of Conduct.

Our history

From paper notices to a single digital registry

2019
Authority established
Presidential Public Procurement Authority is created by statute to consolidate procurement oversight that had previously been split across individual ministries.
2021
First digital registry
A pilot e-tendering portal goes live for three ministries, replacing newspaper notices for those agencies.
2023
National rollout
Every central government agency is required to publish tenders through the platform; supplier registrations pass 2,000.
2026
Open-contracting data
Award decisions begin publishing as structured open data within 48 hours of contract signature.
Core values

What guides our work

Transparency
Every notice, criterion and outcome is published.
Fairness
Equal access for every qualified supplier.
Integrity
Zero tolerance for conflicts of interest.
Value
Best outcomes for the public purse.

These four values are not aspirational language alone — each is tied to a measurable obligation. Transparency is enforced through mandatory publication timelines; fairness through standard evaluation templates that every agency must use; integrity through a public conflict-of-interest register; and value through post-award benchmarking against comparable contracts.

Leadership team

Who runs Presidential Public Procurement Authority

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Kojo Mensah
Director-General
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Kwabena Owusu
Deputy Director, Compliance
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Adwoa Nyamekye
Head of Supplier Relations
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Kofi Asare
Head of Digital Platform
Organisational structure

Reporting lines

Board of Directors
Director-General
Compliance & Standards
Supplier Relations
Digital Platform

The Board of Directors is appointed for staggered three-year terms and includes representatives from the Ministry of Finance, the private sector and civil society, so that no single interest group controls oversight of the procurement system.

Strategic objectives 2026–2029

Where we're headed

  • Bring 100% of central government tenders onto the platform by 2027.
  • Reduce average notice-to-award time by 30%.
  • Grow registered SME suppliers to 10,000.
  • Publish a public open-contracting dataset, updated daily.
Integrity pledge

A code of conduct for everyone on the platform

Every procurement officer who publishes a notice through Presidential Public Procurement Authority, and every supplier who registers to bid, agrees to the same Code of Conduct. It prohibits gifts or favours linked to a live tender, requires disclosure of any personal or business relationship with a bidder, and obliges officers to record the reasons behind every evaluation decision.

Breaches are investigated by the Compliance & Standards division and can result in a supplier being suspended from bidding, or an agency's publishing rights being reviewed by the Board.

Stakeholder engagement

Built with the people who use it

Presidential Public Procurement Authority runs quarterly consultations with the Chamber of Commerce and SME associations to review how well the platform is serving smaller suppliers, and an annual Procurement Forum that brings agency officers and bidders into the same room for open Q&A. Feedback from both has directly shaped features such as the closing-soon alerts and the simplified supplier registration form.